Join us on Thursday, 18 March, at 12h CET, for a brand-new episode of the iWorkinSport LIVE Interview. Then, we will be speaking with Geraldine “Dina” Bernardo, organiser of SWEEP, the Sport for Women’s Empowerment and Employment in the Philippines – an international conference that takes place next week, online.
Dina has an extensive career in sport. First, as an athlete, she was the Team Captain of the Philippine Women’s Dragon Boat Team, who won two gold medals during their first stint to the Southeast Asian Games in 2005. Later she became the Chairperson of the Philippine Olympic Committee Athletes Commission.
She was also appointed as the first female Executive Director of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), handling the administrative functions and operations of the country’s sport governing body.
Dina holds posts at the Asian Association of Sport Management (AASM) and the Asian Council of Exercise and Sports Science (ACESS); thus founding the local chapter, Sport Management Council of the Philippines (www.sportphil.com). She is a recipient of various international training and was the first Filipina accepted into the inaugural class of the Global Sports Mentoring Program for emerging women sports leaders under the U.S. State Department headed then by Secretary Hillary Clinton and espnW.
She currently teaches Sport Management, Sport Marketing and Strategic Management at the De La Salle University (DLSU) and pursuing further studies in Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) with research focus on athlete and sport entrepreneurship.
Join the live interview and learn more about how to build a successful career in sport.